Safety without slow-downs: use Known Hazards and Geo Alerts for smarter sites
Oliver Revolta, Researcher & Copywriter
With multiple sites, rotating teams, and rigorous HSE demands, safety briefings are an inevitable part of day-to-day life across UK infrastructure.
But ensuring safety and compliance shouldn’t slow your teams down.
Re-flow has introduced two new safety features – ‘Known Hazards’ and ‘Geo Alerts’ – designed to make compliance effortless. Both features are now live and ready to use.
Why traditional safety systems fall short
In an ideal world companies would build up a resource of potential site issues – everything from difficult members of the public to potholes and uneven ground – so that they could be reused and updated as jobs come and go…
Traditional systems make storing and reusing insights difficult, and can lead to duplicated effort and wasted time chasing information. In high-turnover or multi-site operations, this gap can quickly become a compliance headache.
Re-flow’s two new features offer a practical solution: a connected safety layer that makes hazard awareness and location-based alerts an automatic part of your field workforce management software.
After all, when safety processes slow teams down, productivity suffers. These features help you stay compliant without sacrificing speed.
How to use ‘Known Hazards’
Re-flow’s ‘Known Hazards’ feature has been designed to build a living record of site-specific risks – a shared safety memory for your organisation that you can come back to time and time again.
Hazards can be logged as early as pre-site visits and logged into your Re-flow software.
Each entry includes a title, risk level, description, and optional location marker (address, map pin, or what3words).
- Operatives see these hazards automatically in their ‘Start of Shift Briefing’ form – or any other form they use on site – minimising admin and ensuring staff review risks before work begins.
- They also see a list of Known Hazards on their app, aligned with the jobs assigned to them for the day, clear and visible as they go through their tasks.
- Operatives sign to confirm they have read everything within the same page, all on their phone.
- For quick reference, an in-app map view also displays all nearby hazards with tappable markers for details. This means fewer last-minute calls, less stress for supervisors, and more confidence for everyone on site.
The next step:
combine ‘Known Hazards’ with ‘Geo Alerts’ for smart sites
Geo Alerts take safety a step further by using location tracking to trigger notifications or alarms when operatives enter a defined radius of a job site or hazard.
For example:
- Alerts are triggered when a site worker approaches a high-risk zone.
- Workers are notified when within 0.5 km of a scheduled job.
- An alarm is sounded if a worker enters an area flagged for restricted access.
The best result for your teams
Combined together, these Re-flow features create an automatic safety net across all of your sites – active in the background every day, and without fail. The ‘Known Hazards’ provide context while ‘Geo Alerts’ provide timely action.
With these features you gain more robust management capabilities and the confidence that your teams are always safe and informed.
Add other Re-flow tools – like near miss forms that instantly upload to the office and trigger notifications to whoever is managing your safety, and in-app qualification records – and you have a complete loop of awareness, prevention, and reporting.
These are the kind of niche workflow innovations that improve life across your business, from auditing to making sure your teams go home safely every day.
With Re-flow, if we do a report on site for HSE, we can do it instantly on site. The client can have a copy and come back for the records, and any issues on site can be dealt with immediately on site.
Please note: for existing clients, Known Hazards requires adjustments to your record sets.
Simply contact Re-flow support and we’ll make the changes and add it to your system.
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